Bus Junkie,

How can the courts dish out sentences like that - it's effectively multiple attemped murder!

Can the judiciary not see that this brings the whole system into disrepute?

WP

Yeah dude, there everywhere. 300mW+ is easy from a 22X DVD burner drive.

I'm sure if countries were serious enough, which they aren't. They would have DVD drive laws. Like special diodes that explode when force is applied to them or something...:ok:

KSEA Flights Lasered Last Night
 

12 flights were illuminated with a green laser while landing at SeaTac. All of them landed without incident. No pilot injuries reported. Authorities are seeking to determine the source of the laser.

Someone shining l@ser at planes landing at Sea-Tac
 

Someone shining laser at planes landing at Sea-Tac
Twelve different flight crews reported that someone was shining a laser into their cockpits as the aircrafts were making their final approach Sunday evening at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

By Seattle Times staff

Twelve different flight crews reported that someone was shining a laser into their cockpits as the aircraft were making their final approach Sunday evening at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Pilots reported seeing the laser between 7:10 and 7:30 p.m. as they came in for landing, said Mike Fergus, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration's Northwest Mountain Region, headquartered in Renton. All of the planes were at an altitude of 1,200 to 1,500 feet and one of the pilots "had a fairly decent description of where the source was," Fergus said. No suspects were found and all of the planes landed safely.

The FBI and Transportation Security Administration are investigating.

Shining a laser at an airplane is a federal offense.

Copyright © 2009 The Seattle Times Company

Next months issue is all about casting your own ceramic guns using your old printer so you can effortlessly slip through the security gates....

I was hit a few months ago on final approach to CDG on the westerlies, approx 4 miles out on finals. They got us, the one infront and the one behind. The police chopper found nothing unfortunately.

I wanted to wring the little ***** neck

KSEA Pirep - Laser
 

Another One @ KSEA
 

Last evening another green laser incident in Seattle, Horizon Air on final to SEA from PDX, about 6:30 pm. The FBI and Seattle Police are attempting to catch the perpetrator. They suspect an airport noise sensitive person to be involved. Here is a news link: Video | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington

Man lasers news chopper, film at 11
 

Another case of someone on the ground pointing a laser at a helicopter, only this guy was so stupid that he pointed it at a news helicopter and continued to blaze away even as the camera crew aboard the aircraft recorded his crime. His mom says he didn't know what he was doing (he's 57!). He said he was annoyed by the helicopter.

See

Blinded by the Light, Helicopter Crew Targeted by Laser Pointer|ABC 7 News

Why are the lasers green?

I was targeted by a muppet with a green laser in the UK.

Another one, this time at YYZ:

CP24- Laser beam aimed into passenger jet cockpit - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television

Re green lasers: There are also red lasers. It seems the more powerful ones are green.

We got zapped on the way into Dublin a few months back, we learnt the next day that he got caught as he pointed it at the police helicopter which went to investigate!:ok:

Air Canada flight zapped
 

San Francisco flight was zapped with a laser on approach to YYZ toronto Pearson this morning.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/5965203

KSEA Arrest
 

Police have arrested a 24 year old man with a laser at SeaTac. Let's hope that this eliminates the recent string of incidents at this location.

Police have arrested a man at CWL:

WalesOnline - News - Wales News - Plane targeted with laser light

And another one
 

L@sers being used to blind pilots flying into Larnaca
 

Larnaca Airport: Lasers Used To Blind Pilots At Night | World News | Sky News

:ugh::ugh::ugh:

It seems that the capability for action against the offenders has been stepped up a notch: BBC NEWS | Technology | Police fight back on l@ser threat

(for police helicopters anyway - but it's a start)

The good news is that Police Helicopters in Northern England are now carrying laser detectors and position fixing kit, an idiot has already been jailed by their use.

The bad news of course is that the publicity might give other cretins similar ideas.

SURE this post will be deleted. . . but, what is the connection between this, and the likely sentences imposed on the brain-cell deficient morons involved versus the Thompson pilot recently jailed for 6 mths who could have been suffering from a marriage break-up/ alcoholism/ racism or who knows what.
Justice ? Yeah feckin right :ugh:

How powerful? We are never told. Up to 5mw are legal, I use them in astronomy education (in places where light pollution doesn't render them invisible anyway) and like rifles should never be used to 'shoot' at flights. What's more, light pollution from the ground has been cited as a factor in more than one aircraft accident and we all know how the police encourage the punters to light up everything.